St Elvan’s Church
St Elvan's Church is a Grade II* listed Anglican church in the centre of the town of Aberdare. It was built in 1851–1852, largely at the instigation of John Griffith, vicar of Aberdare from 1847 until 1859.Photo: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Anglican
- Description: church in Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales
- Also known as: “St Elvan’s” and “St Elvan’s Church, Aberdare”
- Address: Church Street, Aberdare, CF44 7AB
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Calfaria Chapel and Aberdare Library.
Calfaria Chapel
Chapel
Photo: Macs15, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Calfaria Baptist Chapel, Aberdare, was one of the largest baptist churches in the South Wales Valleys and the oldest in the Aberdare valley. The chapel had an ornate interior, including a boarded ceiling with a deeply undercut rose, while the balcony balustrading had a cast iron front with an intricate foliage design. Calfaria Chapel is situated 500 feet south of St Elvan’s Church.
Aberdare Library
Library
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aberdare Library is situated 650 feet west of St Elvan’s Church.
Aberdare railway station
Railway station
Photo: Avocet, Public domain.
Aberdare railway station serves the town of Aberdare in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It is the terminus of the Aberdare branch of the Merthyr Line, 22½ miles north-north-west of Cardiff Central. Passenger services are provided by Transport for Wales. Aberdare railway station is situated 1,300 feet east of St Elvan’s Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Abernant and Trecynon.
Abernant
Village
Photo: Aberdare Blog, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Abernant is a small village north-east of the town of Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Like many in the South Wales Valleys, it was once a coal-mining village.
Trecynon
Village
Photo: Darren Wyn Rees, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Trecynon is a village near Aberdare, situated in the Cynon Valley, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It dates from the early nineteenth century and developed as a result of the opening of the Aberdare Ironworks at Llwydcoed in 1800.
Aberaman
Village
Photo: Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aberaman is a village near Aberdare in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales. It was heavily dependent on the coal industry and the population, as a result, grew rapidly in the late nineteenth century.
St Elvan’s Church
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.71316° or 51° 42′ 47″ northLongitude
-3.44514° or 3° 26′ 43″ westOpen location code
9C3RPH73+7WOpenStreetMap ID
way 97589522OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=anglicanWikidata ID
Q17743264
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In Other Languages
“St Elvan’s Church” goes by many names.
- Welsh: “Eglwys Sant Elfan”
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